There are indeed a lot of Japanese users on this thing. Why?
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Because it works and easy to use! I think it also fit the culture well! Don’t ask me why, just my gut feeling! I am in Japan myself! 🐶🐾🫡
Higher propensity for early adoption?
こんにちは❗️👏
why not?
A culture that doesn’t waste time complaining, but rather revels in the freedom inherent with ingenuity?
It's because mattn is building a Haiku bot, building Nostr tools, and so on, to energize the Japanese community.
Is a Haiku bot really that big of a deal? Is mattn a leader of the Japanese peoples?
There are many developers other than mattn.
We Japanese enjoy new things happening every day. These are tools created by Japanese developers.
https://scrapbox.io/nostr/%E9%96%A2%E9%80%A3%E3%83%84%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
Japan is the 3rd biggest economy in the world with a population of 120 million and many people tend to value privacy and pseudonyminity . Also there is a vibrant group of lighthing enthusiasts Dimond Hands which could be helping spread the world. So I don't think it's too surprising to see Japanese on here.
I think that is because we love twitter-like social media. Twitter has the largest market share of social media in Japan.
BOJ is world 2nd biggest electronic printer
(Fed is #1 Fiat Emperor - Q Fiat + Jaf -meaning? )
#bitcoin is 21M 🇯🇵 knows
Nippon has one of worlds highest density in computing/smartphone after Korea ...
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楽しいです。
NIP が持つたくさんの可能性のおかげで、たくさんの楽しみが見つかります。日本人同士で交流もできるし、他言語の人とも対話できます。それは私が今まで他の SNS であまり経験できなかったことです。
ありがとうございます😊
Japanese people are said to be shy, but social media is a place where they can easily maintain anonymity, which makes it easier for them to communicate actively. They may also be good at finding their own ways of enjoying social media.
Japanese people are also quite active on Twitter, so I think there is a strong tendency for them to prefer text chat-style communication.
About a month ago, @erechorse said that the village (we refer our community as "village") is the venue for never-ending hackathon.
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We are not that enthusiastic all the time, but every day someone brings something interesting or something funny to our village. We share it and enjoy it together. We feel that our community is quite special and may be tentative. I think that's why we enjoy so much and take care of it.
As nostr is pretty hackable, it is an interesting place in itself for techies like me. But we are not only techies, and I think that's what makes the village so wonderful. Everyone is an expert in something. We are all from different backgrounds who have been attracted to nostr. Such people have gathered, at least for now.
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Japanese people share America's sense of individualism, self determination, liberty and human rights. We just don't realize it because of the language divide. Surprisingly not all countries are like the US and Japan.
Because of recent cultural events they prefer twitter annonymity to facebook snooping. A public Doxxing saga was their version of Julian Assange, or Silk Road.